The trouble with becoming a Scrum Master
Many years ago, when I was starting out as a Scrum Master,…
4 Signs of success for Scrum Masters – Guest blog post by Kiryl Baranoshnik
As Scrum Masters, we want to know when we are doing a good job.…
A real life story: In search of Value, how we helped a team go from idea to revenues in 2 weeks
We wanted to share one of our success stories of how we helped…
Peer Recruiting: How to Hire a Scrum Master in Agile Times
by Stefan Wolpers
In the near future, all creative, technology-based…
How to Boost Agile Team Performance with the Power of Touch
Most of us are lucky to have five senses, yet we only use sight…
The Bungsu Story book
I'm writing a book on a very special experience that I was lucky…
No Estimates: A Brief Introduction and Practical Uses
Estimation has become engrained into our daily lives. How long…
Living Eulogy – Agile Retrospectives
by Jessica Long
Agile Retrospective Activity
The most unfortunate…
100 Top Agile Blogs from 2015
Oikosofy Team has prepared for you 100 Top Agile blogs in 2015
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12 important lessons learned by experienced Scrum Masters
Since the beginning of the year 2015 we´ve been running one of the most popular scrum podcast in the world “Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast” . Hundreds of Scrum Masters around the wor…
2 Truths and a Lie retrospective
by James Gifford Two Truths and a Lie is a classically fun activity that I have used many times to ‘break the ice’ at social gatherings or group meetings. In this case, I had a te…
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Agile Manager – What is an Agile Manager?
I have worked with Agile Software Development for several years, and during all these years I´ve seen the same problem over and over again: very few companies understand what is an…
Pictionary
by Jason Cusack: an Enterprise Agile Coach, and has held roles as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Corporate Bureaucracy Destroyer. It´s a pleasure to have Jason Cusack contribut…
An Energising Retrospective Plan
by Samantha Laing and Karen Greaves If you have retrospective regularly you will know that they each have a different feel. Some are serious, some are fun, some look far back, some…
Car Brand – agile retrospective
by Luis Goncalves “Car Brand” exercise is a great way to start an effective retrospective. This exercise is taken out of the book “ Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives ” by L…
DAKI – Agile Retrospectives Exercise
We are pleased to have Mario Lucero as our guest blogger. Mario is an Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer based in Santiago (Chile), who helps organizations deliver high quality software…
“Drawing a smiley: acceptance criteria”
by Raquel Pérez In this exercise we will work the need of asking questions to the Product Owner. The main aim is to define every user story as clear and complete as possible before…
Emotional Roller Coaster Retro technique
by Jason Cusack Our Practice team looks for creative ways to breathe life back into stale retrospectives. We love to embody techniques that require engagement from the WHOLE team,…
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Express Yourself – Check-in activity for Retrospectives
by Anthony Petrucci What can you expect to get out of this exercise? Express Yourself is an easy Check-In exercise at the beginning of the Retrospective that will visualize the tea…
Happiness Index – agile retrospective tool
by Luis Goncalves No matter how good teams are, there is always an opportunity to improve. Happiness Index is an agile retrospectives tool, which measures happiness of agile teams.…
High Performance Tree
by Luis Goncalves Luis Goncalves shares this exercise in his book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives a book written by him and Ben Linders with the foreword from Esther Derb…
How can Oikosofy help you?
Many prospect customers ask for a simple and typical example how Oikosofy can help them. In this blog post, we describe a typical case how Oikosofy can help your company to save mo…
Imagine a Failure: a pre-mortem retrospective
by Nikos Batsios Conducting a Post-Mortem at the end of your project is a great lesson learned practice that could promote the recurrence of desirable outcomes while preventing fro…
Kudo Cards
Kudo Card is something so simple yet not often used in companies. Maybe its importance is not enough highlighted. We use Kudo Cards at our clients´ projects as well as among oursel…
Recruiting has begun
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Sailboat
Sailboat is a tool for agile retrospective exercise. This exercise allows a team to think about their own objectives, impediments, risks, and good practices, in a simple piece of p…
Speed Dating – Agile Retrospective Style
by Jessica Long Around the time that the Agile Manifesto materialized, another fast paced and sleeker model of partnering and collaboration was popularizing – speed dating! It only…
What is a Starfish in a retrospective
by Luis Goncalves The Star Fish exercise is an evolution of the typical 3 questions that are used for retrospectives: What went well? What did not go so well? What should be improv…
Team Assessment Survey
by Luis Goncalves Team Assessment Survey is a great tool for a retrospective. This tool comes from a SAFe framework established by Dean Leffingwell. You can find the original asses…
The 1 Thing You Must Do To Be Better At Scrum
by David Horowitz Scrum is not a quick fix. It won’t make your software better overnight. It won’t increase trust between your team and its stakeholders in a flash. And, especially…
The Mutant Star Fish
by Stefano Porro The mutant Star Fish is my personal customization of the famous retrospective exercise called Star Fish. It adds to the typical three questions of the original exe…
The Twitterspective – agile retrospective
by Anthony Petrucci What is the Twitterspective? Why hold an Agile Retrospective when you can have a Twitterspective? The Twitterspective is a paper-based social media-like simulat…
“The What/So What/Now What”
by Jeremy Jarell Meet the “The What/So What/Now What” Retrospective Format The “What/So What/Now What” retrospective format is a variation on the classic “What’s Working/What’s Not…
“The World Café”
by Timothée Bourguignon Although the World Café is well known in the moderation space, I have rarely seen this format used as a Scrum Retrospective. The World Café requires larger …
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Value Stream Mapping
by Luis Goncalves What can you expect out of this exercise Although value stream mapping is often associated with manufacturing, it is also used in logistics and supply chain manag…
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